Final Post of This Blog!!!!

In these past few months, we've been blogging about the books we were reading. It was a neat experience to do it. I've always loved reading.
The books I've read:
The Book Thief
The Little Prince
边城（Border City）
围城
天龙八部
红楼梦
As I talked about it before, I'm a really slow reader in English, it took me extra long to finish the first book.
My future about reading seems pretty bright. I used to finish one book a day, and that book is usually more than 500 pages.
Grand total time: 18 hours.

My Experience of This Blog.

When I first heard about this project, I was thinking that this is impossible for me to do. Although I love to read, but I do not like to read in English. For me, reading English is not reading, is it studying. I read the words in the book but do not get them. The day that this project started, I went to the local library to find myself a good book. I got The Book Thief. It was an interesting book, but as I said, I hate reading English. Then I talked to my mother, asked her if she could send me some books. Her package got here 2 weeks later, after I almost finish the first book that I totally did not understand. Then I started reading in my own language. I read very fast in Chinese, but I don't have enough time to read. Time might be a biggest problem for me in this project.

Reading time this week: 1 hour.
Total time: 16 hours.

Total Reading Time

15 hours.

2 Inferences

1. They are going to get married, but they are totally different, it is a heterogamy.
  +It is hard for two people that are different to live together.
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It will be a hard marriage, no matter how much they love each other.

2. His brother likes her, too.
 + They live in the same household, they will see each other.
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Conflicts are going to occur.

I have read 0.5 hour this week.

Make a Movie!

There is movie out there for that book I was reading already, but I have not watched it yet. If I were the director, I would chose my own main actors and actresses.

Ｉwould like her to be my main actress, because she has a really innocent little girl look in the other movie. Her name is Zhang Jingchu.

I am really not sure about those two brothers because it is hard to picture the actors I know in their shoes.

I have read 0.5 h this week.

What I Have Read During Spring Break.

I did not read much during the spring break, because I went to DC with a lot of people. The only thing that I really read was the hand book that Mrs. Miller gave us. It was about the places that we would go through on the trip. It included details of Jefferson's home and Washington's home, the memorials in DC area, etc. All the students edited this hand book before we went on the trip, it was a good way to help us know what we were doing.
I have read 0.5 hour during the break.

Expectations.

That was an oops week... but I got what I was expecting at first. They are too far away from each other, not the distance, but their environment and their family. Their friends would look at them weird and the neighbors would look at them as a joke, they would think that this couple would not last very long because of their major differences.
I have read 1 hour during the week before spring break.

Describe my antagonist.

In the book that I am reading now does not have a bad guy, all people were under the era of war, their biggest rival is the society. Parents of poor girls always wanted their daughters to marry into rich families, and rich families always like to keep their wealth within rich families. When a poor girl and a rich guy fall in love without any concern about money, the society looks at it in a whole different way. Other people view the girl as a terrible person, and the family of the guy is trying to persuade him not to marry her. The society is so traditional and shadowed under war. Even if you are a good man, you cannot get a fair chance.
I have read 2 hours this week.

Twist.

Due to the era of the book, there is something that I cannot change, like social stratification and inequality, but those actually make the story quite interesting. There are two brothers in the story that liked the girl at the same time, and they were from a rich family. I want to twist this part. I do not want them to be brothers, and I want the brother to be born in a poor family. The girl in the story was raised by her grandfather, because her father was in the military and her mother died when she gave birth to her. I do not want her mother to die, because I think it would be interesting if her life is influenced by a woman.
I have read 1 hour this week.

News Report on The Book I Am Reading

A country girl from a fishing village lives with her mother. She went to a wedding with her mother in a big town. There, she saw a nurse with white uniform. Since the girl is from the village and this happened long time ago, she did not know that a nurse was a nurse. The nurse was a very nice lady with pale skin. Mother told the girl that people live in big  town do not work outside, so they have pale skin. She found out that she liked to see people like that.
The butler in that house thought the girl was cute, he talked  to her mom about her marriage. The mother was happy, because her daughter might have a chance to marry into a big rich family. After the wedding, they, the mother and the girl, would visit that family quite often.
One day, they heard from their friend that the young man in that family died. They rushed to their house, but no one would let them see the young man. After all, they found out that nurse with pale skin and white uniform who was supposed to take care of the young man, happened to be his wife. The ballon of their dream popped.
I have read 3.5 hours this week.

5 Reasons Why I Would Be Friends with My Author.

I have recently switched a book, because the book that I was reading before did not really catch my interest. The book I am reading now is called The Border Town (边城). This book is written by Shen Congwen.
The first reason is this author was initially trained for a career in military, a soldier in Chinese Army. He could be considered a WW1 veteran in China.
He quitted the army, and devoted himself into literature teaching in various colleges, is the second reason why I would be friends with him. During the war times, young people that were not in the military, really needed to learn and feel strong from the inside. He helped them out.
When the wars ended, he suffered through the Communist Revolution and recovered. This is the third reason. A lot of fiction writers either gave up or got caught by the government and died. Although he went through the hard times, he never published another work of fiction.
His language is in between the time of old Chinese and modern Chinese. It is like between Shakespeare and Flannery O'conner. When the language is easy to understand, he made it very beautiful at the same time. This is the forth reason.
The final reason is the place where the story took place in this book is actually where he was from. This book is so famous that people from all over the country want to see this place. A lot of his readers went there just because he wrote it so beautifully that the dictions motivated the readers. If I have a chance, I would definitely go.
I have read 3 hrs this week.

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Life Is Wonderful - Jason Mraz

Lily Allen - Littlest Things [Original Video]

Spin - Late Night Alumni

4 Songs for the Book.

The first song I am picking is Spin by Late Night Alumni. This story reminds me of cold nights which the song also reminds me of.
The second song is called Littlest Things by Lily Allen. The book thief stole the books might seem like a very small and unimportant thing, but it might be precious for her.
The third song is Life is Wonderful by Jason Mraz. As you can see, this song is telling people that life is wonderful, everything is working well, you should not be upset about it.
The forth song I am going to pick is a Chinese song called 红玫瑰, which means rose. I like this song because is used a lot of string instruments, especially cello. The lyrics does not fit the story that well, but the tune which is in minor fits perfect.
I have read 2.5 hrs this week.

Three Questions of the Book That I Am Reading.

Q1. Why is the name the street ironic?
A: The name of the street is Himmel, it means heaven in German. It is ironic not because it is a living hell, but it is not heaven, either. Nothing looks pleasant.
Q2. Who is Liesel?
A: She is a fourteen-year-old grave digger who has a book that she stole in her suitcase.
Q3. How many books does she have?
A: 14.
I read 30 min today.

The Cover of the book I am reading.

The book that I am reading now is The Book Thief. I have read one hour this week. The cover of this book  has a dark background. There is a board with some dominos on it. The dominos have holes on them, I suppose the holes stand for numbers. On the bottom left, a hand is trying to push the dominos. I have not read very far since I am a very slow reader in English, but I can tell this cover stands for something in the book, little things can lead to a huge consequence, just like the dominos on the cover. I think it is a brilliant idea that the book cover makes people think. When I first looked at it, I thought the cover had absolutely nothing to do with a book thief. This book might take me a long time to read, but I will do my best.

My goal.

My goal is to read a book in English that is more than 500 pages, and read some Chinese books after it, because it might take me millions of hours to read in English. I will try to post the comments and everything in English. Since Mr. Strusz just wants us to read and develope a reading habit, I will read as much as I could, and try to beat him.

静夜思 李白

床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，低头思故乡。